Originally published in the Guardian on 19 March 1982: Mary Whitehouse, who brought a private prosecution against the play’s director, felt that it was quite unnecessary for her to see the play to appreciate its insidious quality

Originally published in the Guardian on 30 July 1983: David Niven, the film star whose pencil moustache, stiff upper lip and nonchalant charm served as emblems of upper middle-class England for more than 40 years, died yesterday at his home near Lake Geneva

Originally published in the Guardian on 26 October 1976: The National Theatre, like some grandiose and posthumous tribute to the British Empire, flared into life last night, when it was opened officially by the Queen

Letters: In those days there were plenty of court reporters – always on the lookout in magistrates courts for well-known men who had been entrapped or caught by the police in lavatories and open spaces

On the weekend of Holocaust Memorial Day, Nicholas de Jongh meets Peter Lantos, the author of a remarkable child's-eye view of the horror, the hell and, ultimately, the hope of life in a Nazi concentration camp.